Besides Anthony Davis, the Player who can help the hornets team most with the No. 10 pick would be Austin Rivers. The kid can start at PG (Vasquez is not an NBA starter and Jack is a 6th off the bench), be a Backup SG (incase Belli leaves)and is an excellent scorer (The team's pressing need).

I think the hornets need a sf instead of sg. I belive with the addition of a scoring sf, monty can switch ariza to sg and make up for some of the size missing on the team.
A player I would like to see on the hornets is Greg Oden. I know he has been hurt most of his career but if he gives us a full season coming off the bench and we land a good sf, the hornets can be a dominant team on the west.

What I think:
Saints will keep all four rb’s I believe the backfield will be made of bush (restructure contract) and Ingram. I think ivory will be in the practice squad due to his injury and Pierre will be ease into play to avoid further problems. Also, I believe Reggie’s tweets “its been fun new Orleans” was about the hornets losing to the Lakers and not about Mark Ingram being drafted.

The Reality:
Pierre Thomas will be traded. He is too much like Mark Ingram and could the saints could use that money to pay the new rookies. Reggie and the saints will restructure his contract and I expect ivory to stick around.

My prediction:
Hornets enter as the #5 seed in the west and win a 7(probable) game series against Oklahoma city thunder. We advance to the second round and lose to the spurs in 6(realistic) or 7(optimistic) games.

We had a 37 win season with Peja missing a bunch of games and CP3 out for 37 games. We can easily be a 50 win team if Peja and CP3 are healthy for at least 80% of the season. Right now, we are easily a top 10 in the west and arguably one of the top 8 teams in the west. Here are the top 8 teams in the west from this year’s playoffs: (Lakers-Mavs-suns-nuggets-jazz-trail blazers-spurs-thunder) then is the rest of the teams (Houston-Memphis & then the hornets..etc). http://media.nba.com/standings/team_record_comparison/conferenceNew_Std_Div.html
I understand there a few up and coming teams like the thunder & blazers that going to improve their record for next year but there are also teams that are going in the opposite direction like the nuggets, spurs, Mavs- if they lose Haywood and the jazz if they lose boozer..etc.
This is scary for the competition because we don't have the players to compete with the top notch teams in the west and we are still capable of making the playoffs. We are a young team with a new philosophy, new head coach and a superstar with a huge chip on his shoulder. I can almost bet we are a few steps away from being a top 4 team in the west. We just need one more year to keep developing dc, mc and the rest of the rookies. Plus, getting rid of Songaila & Peja contract will get rid of 21 million dollars off our books making us a contender to get a top 10 player in the NBA. We just need to be patience….and hope that the new ownership is in place by the start of this upcoming season and pray Gary Chouest is going to spend $$ like we are expecting him to.

1. Our strength is the guard position (paul, collison & thorton). That is the only bright spot in our team. Why mess with it? He have gotten used having horrible backup guards (Daniels, James, Brown) that the minute we acquire an excellent player, we are trying to take a gamble to make the team better.
2. You don't trade Collison!!!!!.... unless it's going to make our team better. For example: Package collison with Okafor's to get 12 mil+ off our books close to the salary cap or get a GREAT player (C- Al Jefferson) out of a trade that may fill our needs. (I'm being optimistic).
2. You trade Peja by himself. There is no need to add collison to that deal. Peja is a trade commodity in the NBA since he has an expiring contract. However, our best scenario is for Peja to leave for Greece. (that's not going to happen).
3. Be patience!!!!! We are a rebuilding team! We have a couple of pieces intact and we are not that far off. We get rid of 3 players (Okafor, Mo Pete & Peja) and we have money to build a contender in the west.
4. We need another super star next to CP3 to make it enticing for other players to join the hornets. High profile players are afraid of small market team since it's harder to create more revenue on advertising etc.. (West is real good but he is not great.)
5. Get rid of the front office! We are not going to be a contender on a consistent basis if we keep giving out an excessive amount of money
to players that DO NOT deserve it. This is what leads to u being over the salary cap and having to get rid of the players we want to keep. (ex: collison).

Trading Collison for a draft pick is crazy! We have an experienced backup point guard with top 10 (All NBA point guard) potential and we are thinking about trading him for an unproven rookie? NO! The only way I would trade Collison is if we get rid of Okafor's contract and we get a potential all-star like Danny Granger or Al Jefferson. Why would we want to get rid of player that helps solidifies our bench, continues the same rhythm of basketball while CP3 is resting on the bench and helps the team be more competitive. Also, I refuse to believe the hornets would package Collison with Mo Pete or Peja since they have expiring contracts. Everyone wants expiring contracts. If you ask me, I would ride the season out, have at least 15 millions off our books next year and target one or two more players to solidify our core. We are not building a team to compete in our division. We are building a team to become world champions and trading a Collison IMO is a setback unless we get a potential all-star in our team.

I say we sign him to a minimum salary that way, if it doesn't work out, it would not be a great investment. Jamarcus is a young player with a lot of potential. He just landed in an awful situation where he hasn't had the chance to develop as a quarterback. Jamarcus is lazy but that's not going to affect our locker room. We have a strong, mature locker room and the minute he slips, the we can say good bye to him. Bringing Jamarcus to n.o. would be a good fit for him since he can learn a lot from Brees and Sean Payton. Plus, is not like he is going to start. If we revive his career, we can always keep him as a hot commodity or even trade him for a player we might need in the future. Again, sign him to a minimum salary. Whats there to lose?

Since the strength of the current Hornets team is the point guard position, we should hire a coach that can use the current/ future roster of the team appropriately. His name is John Calipari. I think, he would a good fit to the Hornets team since he is known for coaching great guards (Rose, Evans). We have three great guards (Thornton, Collision and Paul) that can take advantage of his up-tempo style of basketball and we can use our young guys to run up and down the court which can make the hornets competitive and an exciting team to watch.